Genus Ichnopus Costa, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ichnopus Costa, A. 1853. Relazione sulla memoria del Dottor Achille Costa, di ricerche su' crostacei amfipodi del regno di Napoli. Rendiconti. Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche 2: 167-178 [169].

  Type species:

   Ichnopus taurus Costa, 1853 by monotypy.
• Glycera Haswell, W.A. 1879. On Australian Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 245-279 pls 7-12 [256] [junior homonym of Glycera Savigny, 1822, Polychaeta].

  Type species:

   Glycera tenuicornis Haswell, 1879 by monotypy.
• Glycerina Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Addenda et corrigenda. Sydney : Australian Museum xxiv 324 pp., 4 pls. [233] [nom. nov. for Glycera Haswell, 1879].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 1992. A revision of the genus Ichnopus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae). Records of the Australian Museum 44(2): 185-245 [191]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate/tropical cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, N coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines

General References

Barnard, J.L. & Karaman, G.S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 13: 1-866 [488 & 491]

Lowry, J.K. & Kilgallen, N.M. 2014. A generic review of the lysianassoid family Uristidae and descriptions of new taxa from Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Uristidae). Zootaxa 3867(1): 1-92 [31, fig. 18]

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 1992. A revision of the genus Ichnopus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae). Records of the Australian Museum 44(2): 185-245 [191, key]

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 531 pp. [281]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	URISTIDAE Hurley, 1963	08-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	06-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		08-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED